Shiba 3D-Art Contest

In this contest, I want to feature and thank the very talented people who create wonderful 3d-content for us ~ the 3d-art vendors. I have great respect and admiration for their talent, work ethic, and general awesomeness!

In general though, April was a quieter month for me. This is mainly because I blew most of my budget at the beginning of the month (during the tail end of March Madness). Therefore, my top three April picks come from early April –

Please tag all your contest images with shiba-5-19.

**I put some example entries in the contest gallery. These examples show what to put in the description and tag fields of contest images. Of course, I can’t enter or win prizes in this contest. 😀

If you have ideas on how to improve the contest or other fun contests you would like to see, please let us know in the comments section below. If there are vendors you would like us to feature, also let us know.

Old and new images are welcome. Entries can be submitted to other contests.

Postwork is allowed and any software may be used.

By entering this contest, you give us permission to post your contest images on this site, for example in an article announcing the contest winners.

We want everyone to have fun, so there aren’t many rules or restrictions. The only real requirement is to include at least one item from one of the featured vendor stores. Links for the featured vendors and stores will be updated at the beginning of every month.

How to Submit Images

To submit an image to the Daz3d gallery, click on MY GALLERY.

We will be using the Daz3D gallery for contest entries.

To submit an entry, you will need to have an account at Daz3d.com. It is very simple to create, and takes very little time to make one.

Then, click on your account icon to the top-right (step 1 in the image to the right), and go to MY GALLERY (step 2).

Next, simply drop an image at the “drop image” icon, or click on it to load an image from your local directory.

How to edit an image in the Daz3d gallery.

Hover your mouse over the image, and click on the Edit Image icon (circled in red to the right).

In the description section of the image, enter in the qualifying items used for this contest. Qualifying images must contain at least one item from one of the current featured vendor stores.

Enter the qualifying items used in the description section of the image.

In the tag section of the image, enter the current contest tag. For example, shiba-6-15. Click on the plus [+] button to the right to add the tag.

How to enter tags for images in the Daz3d gallery.

Save your image, and that is it!

Hope You Have Fun!

And thank you for participating! If you have any additional questions, suggestions, or comments, please post them below.

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I love your articles and this contest. Congrats on a great site. I’ve entered a few times in the past and will have few for this month. I even got and honorable mention a while back – surprised the hell out of me.

Starting last month though, I’ve been having problems reading the site. It loads, but some of the text keeps disappearing, usually about which vendors can be used. I just spent a great deal of time doing some images based on the Karyssa Pro Bundle I just got as a belated Xmas present. You can imagine my consternation when when I came to the site today to see if the January winners were posted and found that Karyssa was not listed as a qualifying item. I know I’m getting old, I’m 68, and can have a certain amount of senior events, but I KNEW I saw it before.

Got my son to look into it for me. He has a degree in computer science, codes games, web sites, etc. He found that you site is riddled with tracker tags to all the links on the page. Sample below:

Hello Jeff! Thank you for visiting and participating in the contest. Sorry for the problems you are having with regards to your adblocker. We use affiliate links and ads on this site to fund site hosting, maintenance, and contest prizes, which can add up to quite a bit. Sadly, without these links, we would not be able to run the monthly contests.

If you are having problems loading, you can try turning off adblocker for just this site. We have also added an affiliate message at the beginning of each post. Thank you very much for your understanding and patience.

Hi I am trying to reach the creators of the Shiba Shake web site. Your site is beyond incredible; I had been considering getting a Shiba Inu and the outstanding experiences and guidance you shared were instrumental in my wife and I getting one for our 20th anniversary.

I notice with sadness that you appear to not be updating the site any longer with new content. I hope all is well on your end.

My name is Glenn and I live in Miami, Florda. We have a 5-month old cream Shiba named Casper who we got at 12 weeks from a breeder in Missouri. He came to us fully potty trained, but afraid of everything and has thrived with many suggestions from your site.

I’ve noticed that days after the end of the month and prior to your announcement of the winners of that previous month’s contest, there are those who are posting/tagging entries for that month (e.g., It’s September but people were still posting entries well after August 31 for the August contest). Is that allowable. I’m just curious because there are times when I would like to enter but missed what I perceived as the deadline.

The end date for submissions is the end of the month. After that, the judges start their process and mail me the results. To be fair, we filter out entries that do not qualify when/if we detect them. Most of all, we hope that this is a fun event for everyone. 😀

Question ? It says that Michael 8 qualifies, does that mean we can choose a vendor AND M8 or if choosing M8 we can’t choose a favorite vendor ? LOL that was a lot of using the word choose in one sentence, hope my question makes sense.

Btw shouldn’t it say featured vendors for September instead of August ?

YIPEE! Arki is one of them! I love her things and she’s among my top favourite vendors. I think I have her whole store wishlisted and is slowly making my way through getting everything. The Nightqueen Wardrobe Collection went in my cart faster than you could blink when it was in fastgrab lol

There were a lot of awesome stuff released during MM and picking a favourite ,well nope can’t do it, too many to choose from. My head is still buzzing from all the great stuff I bought and I haven’t used half of it.

Haha, yeah, I always find stuff in my runtime that I didn’t know I had. It is like getting an unexpected present each time. 😀 I must say tho that my fav. product currently is that Kadis armor. I just can’t stop using it.

I can’t express how happy I am that I discovered ThinkArtDraw. The tutorials are extremely helpful and the art contest each month never fails to leave my jaw hanging open. I could spend hours just flipping through galleries oooooing and ahhing at the talent. Thank you so much ShibaShake for sponsoring this!

Congrats on a wonderful site. You’re doing a wonderful job and your art is amazing. Well done.

I’ve just recently rebuilt my system and installed all my art programs. I’m like an art junky, not knowing which software to tinker in. I realise I’m behind in Daz and it’s new, amazing renderer, hence my participation in your challenge this month. Hope it’s not to raunchy but what better way to test my skills with water. Needless to say, I’m tired of tweaking.

I hear you on that one. Got some really great deals and could have gotten a lot more…But…my creditcard doesn’t agree with me on that one, being a single mom and all lol…at least I don’t have a spouse breathing down my neck , only kids looking at me like I’m crazy from time to time when I drool over stuff I would like to get.

Hmm, can I use Fred Winkler Art again? He has so many great characters and I have a lot of them heh. If I can use FWA, am I only allowed to use the items he created alone, or can I use like say FWSA characters?

Didn’t get to submit as many pics as I wanted in June ;/ I have so much DM stuff but I spent far too much time working on the Caught picture. So that Suicide Squad contest, all I see is hand drawn stuff. Im not sure what this means really, “All submissions must be original artwork (meaning not using third party pre-existing copyright materials).” Like we can use 3D stuff right, do you think, it would be just like any other contest I enter? Sorry, guess maybe I should ask them lol! I have a few ideas for July’s contest 😉 I just love these.

Yeah probably best to ask them (Warner Bros.). I just figured it was ok to use Daz stuff since Daz put it in their newsletter and offered an additional 1k GC for winners. Btw. feel free to share your submission links here. I would love to see!

Finished my entry! Man did it take me a long time. Had to make new textures for all the clothes, added blood to Harley’s bat, and kept changing my mind on what hair I wanted to use. Here’s the link, but I think we cant look at the entries after they start judging. Not sure heh, I made it with 2 hours to spare!

Awesome! I have a ton of stuff from DM actually going back to 2002! Just got a few more yesterday even, looking forward to using the Drake Tower! Do you want us to only use the products we got from DAZ?

I just entered. I hope I did it right. The tag doesn’t show on my picture but the qualifying information does. If I did this wrong, can someone tell me? I’m new at joining contests! Thanks so much, Denise

Hi Shiba, does one have to use DAZ Studio to qualify or can you use a different application as long as a qualifying item is used? I am starting to work with a different app (still love DS) but it is work related and limiting my time using DS at the moment.

Ha… I’m laughing ShibaShake… Like you once Daz made punches permanent… my purse got emptier and emptier! chaa chiiiiiiiiing!!! Love the website… I just found it… I’ve got it in my favs. 😉 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

In general, qualifying products are only those that are in the posted featured links. Since September is Vendor month at DAZ, we wanted to keep it mostly to daz stores. Also, we are using the Daz Gallery and doing Daz GC as prizes, so Daz Vendors will generally be the focus.

However, on regular months, we usually include vendor stores from other places as well, in which case they will be listed in the featured vendors section.

Shiba, thank you for your answer. Totally understand your position. I have a couple of lovely models by Sabby but not from DAZ. I’ll have to look through my runtime and see if I can come up with some other ideas. 🙂